and then keying all the rest of the establishment up to that tone, even though many days go by before it is finished.
Act wealthy. Talk prosperously. Be a free avenue through which riches may pass to all. The world needs to learn the spiritual science of wealth, and your home can be a classroom.
FOURTH MEDITATION
BLESS, PRAISE, GIVE THANKS
There is no greater prospering power than the word of blessing, of genuine praise, and of thanks from the heart, directed especially toward those people and those things and events which have seemed to curse us.
As this word must not be merely from the lips, it will require skill, discernment, inspiration, and a prophetic sense to find out what one can praise in one's enemies; to see what one can be thankful for in misfortune or can bless in time of treachery. The very excercise itself will enrich one, as it did the sons of the wise father in the fable.
An Aesopian fable tells of an old farmer who had four lazy sons, and who in dying told them he had nothing to leave them but a field but that in the field was buried a treasure. So when he died they vigorously dug up the field. But they found no
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